Record

D7127 - Pastures Hospital (1948-1993), formerly Derby County Mental Hospital (1918-1948) and Derby County Lunatic Asylum (1851-1918) - 1908-1954

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Archive Reference / Library Class No.	D7127
Title	Pastures Hospital (1948-1993), formerly Derby County Mental Hospital (1918-1948) and Derby County Lunatic Asylum (1851-1918)
Date	1908-1954
Description	Daily report books, variously recording weather data, patient statistics, admissions and discharges
Extent	3 volumes
Level	Fonds
Repository	Derbyshire Record Office
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Archive Creator	Pastures Hospital, formerly Derby County Mental Hospital and Derby County Lunatic Asylum
Administrative History	The hospital opened in 1851 in Mickleover as the Derby County Lunatic Asylum, taking pauper and private patients. It was renamed the Derby County Mental Hospital in 1918, and became Pastures Hospital in the 1948, when it transferred to the National Health Service. It closed in 1993 as part of the reorganisation of mental health care.
Custodial History	These records were re-accessioned from collection D7066 (Kingsway Hospital, formerly Derby Borough Lunatic Asylum) in June 2009.
Organisation Sub-Type	Hospitals
Related Material	See D1658 for the main archive collection for Pastures Hospital, formerly the Derby County Mental Hospital/County Asylum. See also D6803 and D7291 for other records of this hospital. See D8281 for records of the Pastures Hospital branch of the Women's Institute, 1962-1982. See D5874 for the archives of the former Derby borough asylum, later Kingsway Hospital.
Term	Hospitals
Term	Health services
Archivist Note	Catalogued June 2009, MPS. Amended 22 November 2021 to conform to current cataloguing standards, BS.